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Hello, my grandmother is desperately seeking to talk to anyone that has dialysis that also has a long-term hickman TPN line (used 6 days out of 7 for 14 hours a day) and also a long term stoma? Dialysis is looking imminent after her kidney function (the 1/4 that is still there) is rapidly declining, there's also no chance of transplant so this is another long term fix.